You be the judge

[creativeaccents]

Sometimes we just have to be sure to attend to the little things and control the variables that we can..kind of like quality control. Before sending the 38, My wife and I held it up to the 36 and even then measured it with a tape to do something of a sanity check. We were pleased to find that it was dead on, hence my bit of frustration in the new request for the 42. Obviously, we have no way of knowing what is going on at the other side.
For myself at least, eBay is being viewed simply as a channel of distribution in testing the waters, for learning more and maybe even ...with the excellent feedback here...assessing and developing the practices to address such in advance, well before making the larger plunge.
Looking at it from a buyers perspective, I could see the value in having an X-Mark retailers code of ethics that assures buyers of some level of expectation. This is certainly helping me in terms of a bit of level setting from the buyer's perspective.